Solid Edge ST4 Training Constructing procedural features

1. Solid Edge ST4TrainingConstructing procedural features

2. Procedural features • Procedural features are manufactured features which perform a particular function. Unlike rounds and drafted faces, procedural features generally come later in the design process and thus do not affect the form of the model. There are several types of procedural features available within Solid Edge, some of which are used extensively in the plastics industry. In this lesson, you will learn how to define the following features. • Hole • Rib • Vent • Lip • Also in this lesson, you will define feature patterns for repetitive use, as well as learn the organizational aspects of feature libraries. You will learn how to manage features using standard Windows operations Cut, Copy and Paste. You will also learn about the Attach and Detach functionality.

3. Hole command • Plane locking • Precise placement • Hole types • Threaded holes • Hole extents • V bottom angles • Hole edits • Holes.txt and Pipethreads.txt files • Saving commonly used hole parameters • Activity: Place holes • Activity: Edit holes

4. Pattern features • Rectangular Pattern command • Activity: Rectangular Patterns • Circular Pattern command • Activity: Circular Patterns • Pattern Along Curve command • Activity: Pattern Along Curve • Fill pattern • Activity: Fill pattern

5. Feature libraries • You can use many of the features used for modeling in Solid Edge in a similar fashion in other designs. The Feature Library page and Teamcenter Feature Library page provides a place for you to store commonly used part and sheet metal features in an easy to access location so you create new designs with less effort and more consistency. • For example, you can construct a cutout feature in one part, store the feature in a feature library location, then reuse the feature in a new part later.

6. Feature libraries • Storing features in a library • Placing feature library members • Redefining parent edges • Feature library guidelines • Create an unmanaged feature library member • Place a feature library member into another document • Activity: Feature Libraries

7. Detaching and attachingfaces and features • You can modify synchronous models by detaching and attaching one or more faces or features. Detaching faces or features makes it possible to remove faces from the solid model without deleting them. This can be useful when you need to create a new variation of an existing model that does not contain some of the features on the existing model, but you want to maintain the features in the document for possible future needs. • Detaching faces or features alsomakes it possible for you to move orrotate the face set to a new position onthe model and then reattach them inthe new location.

8. Detaching faces • You can detach faces using the Detach command on the shortcut menu when one or more faces or features are selected, or you can use the Detach option available on the Move QuickBar. You can select the faces in the graphics window or in PathFinder. • When you use the Detach shortcut menu command, the detached faces are hidden automatically in the graphics window, and the color is changed to the construction color. You can use PathFinder to redisplay the faces.

9. Attaching faces • You can attach faces using the Attach command on the shortcut menu when detached faces are selected in PathFinder or the graphics window. To successfully attach, a valid solid body must be formed. If the faces you are trying to attach do not form a valid solid body, a message is displayed.

10. Detaching and attachingfaces and features • Detach faces • Attach features • Activity: Detach and attach face sets • Activity: Attach

11. Cutting, copying, and pasting model elements • Copying and cutting elements • Pasting elements • Activity: Copy and move face sets • Activity: Copy and paste face sets

12. Mirror • Constructs a mirror copy of selected elements about a plane you define. • You can mirror any of the following • Faces of the model body • Face Sets • Surfaces • Procedural Features, such as HoleOccurrences and Patterns • Entire model body • The mirror plane can be a referenceplane or a planar face. • Activity: Mirror faces and features

13. Replace face command • Replaces selected faces on a part. The replacement face can be a construction surface, a reference plane, or another face on the part. When replacing more than one face, the faces being replaced cannot touch each other. • When you replace a face using a construction surface, the construction surface is hidden automatically when you finish the feature. • If edges on the face you are replacing have rounds applied, the rounds are reapplied after you complete the replace face operation.

14. Plastics design features • Rib command • Web network command • Vent command • Lip command • Activity: Functional features in consumer products